Mary Ann Joyce, information resources and services support specialist in Penn State Worthington Scranton’s library, was the recipient of this year’s Gertrude Hawk Chocolates Service Award.

Allison Burns, Penn State Worthington Scranton registrar, has been named the July Employee of the Month by Chancellor Marwan Wafa.

Jiexin "Jessie" Wang, assistant professor of management at Penn State Worthington Scranton, is this year’s recipient of the Dr. Richard J. and Sally Matthews Award for Scholarly Activity, which is awarded annually to a deserving faculty member in recognition of his/her scholarly and research activities.

Kailey Gearhart, an honors sophomore who plans to major in nursing at Penn State Worthington Scranton, presented her research findings on celiac disease at the Northeast Regional Honors Conference in Pittsburgh earlier this spring.

Kalei Kowalchik, a sophomore honor’s nursing major at Penn State Worthington Scranton, has been awarded a Penn State Student Engagement Network grant to pursue an engaged learning experience with the Visiting Nurses Association Home Health and Hospice of Lackawanna County.

Yili Lian, assistant professor of business at Penn State Worthington Scranton, has published a paper that was recognized as a “Highly Commended Paper” in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. The paper, “Do bank lending relationships affect corporate cash policy?” was published in the Review of Accounting and Finance.